+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + R. L P. The Red Cross Hoard is dead. May it rest in peace. The long-rumored demise of the Red Cross board is slated for the ASUO Senate meeting Tuesday evening, we understand. Any action the Senate may take will be rather anti climatical under the circumstances. The death blow to the board was dealt by the members themselves. In past vears the Red Cross board has been responsible for conducting blood drives on campus, checking fire precautions, and providing occasional entertainment and favors for the Veterans’ hospital in Roseburg. Weekly meetings were held to conduct mostly busy work. This vear the board has not been able to perform these functions because of local Red Cross rulings. They have managed to discontinue their weekly gatherings. The need for such a board ceased to exist. The most significant thing is that the mem bers themselves realized this. In deciding to disband the Red Cross board they have taken a positive step toward eliminating one or ganiatiozn which no longer fulfills a need on campus. In so doing they have exemplified a greater interest in the welfare of the campus as a whole, for they are taking away a lot of fat personal titles. This, however, will give them more time ot devote to more worth while activities. Here is hoping that some other campus organiations n a simlar situa tion wiH see the light ami follow the example of the Red Cross board.—(S.R.) Revolution Wednesday the architecture story “broke.” It wasn’t as exciting as it might have been earlier—it appeared for a time as if jhere would be a revolution on that end of the campus, with the architecture faculty man ning the barricades against the enraged stu dents. The end result was the establishment of an advisory council of students and a prom ise by Dean Little to "eliminate specifically scheduled criticisms.” Rumors of varying types and degrees had been circulating on campus about the im pending "revolution” for several weeks. The Emerald was placed in the unfortu nate position of being able to get only one side of the picture on an “on the record” basis. The a iews of the other side were kept “off the record” in a talk with the Emerald reporter. Luckily, the time the Emerald felt that the story could no longer be kept silent co incided with the time of the settlement of the dispute. But we hope that both the students and faculty members involved in this dispute have seen that, if correctly handled, the news of the difficulties in the Architecture school might have been settled more speed ily had the story been printed. It is situations like that that point up the peculiar position of the campus newspaper. An obligation exists to the Unversity to serve the best interests of the institution, but an equally strong obligation exists to the students and faculty of the University —that obligation is the one of printing all the news. We don’t think the two conflict. Cer tainly, they may appear to, but the facts, correctly written and displayed, can do much less harm in the long run than can rumors which circulate all around the cam pus despite efforts to check them. W e hope this will be rememlwred in future incidents like the "revolution” in the Archi tecture school. Footnotes A question : When you meet a large truck on the Hello Walk, is it necessary to say ‘'hello” to it ? THE FRATERNITY PROBLEM Oregon Fraternities Could Gain By Studying Indiana's System (Ed. >ote: This is the sec ond and final article in a se ries analyzing the strength and weaknesses of fraternity sys tems in general and Oregon’s fraternity system in particu lar.) By Dick Lewis Emerald Associate Editor Fraternity change—for the good or the bad—depends first -on the right kind of leadership. This places the problem square ly on two sets of shoulders: first, IFC and, second, the UO ad ministration. Fraternities at Oregon have come a long way under the guidance of Ray Hawk, IFC ad viser. But Hawk readily admits that fraternities have a lot more improvements to make before anyone has a right to feel com placent. More self-government by the fraternities themselves would seem to be a logical step in developing a more mature, re sponsible system. Speaking for the administration, Hawk says, “We’re ready and willing to give the fraternities more self government.” After the panning this news paper gave the last Greek Week, this may sound ironic coming from an Emerald writer, but I believe the key to an advanced fraternity system may lie with Greek Week. Scrutinize the fol lowing Greek Week schedule, Indiana style: Activities begin on Wednes day evening with a recognition banquet for outstanding fra ternity and sorority members. Some nationally prominent speaker gives the main address, thus setting the tone for the whole week. Thursday and Friday are de voted to workshops and discus sions of public relations, rush week, fraternity officer duties, etc. Friday night the Greek Week committee sponsors a free all campus dance with the stated purpose of “creating good will and bettering Independent-Or ganized relations." Saturday morning is devoted to pledges and pledge workshops and Greek Week ends Saturday noon with a pfedge recognition banquet. Best of all this kind of Greek Week would serve each year to refresh and remind fraternity men at a broad level of the high er ideals and objectives of a good fraternity system. An individual fraternity may have good lead ership one year and poor the next. Greek Week could be strong, bettering influence that would not run hot and cold. The Greek Week awards ban quet might supply enough incen tive to make fraternities actively work for some of the higher goals such as grades, community service, etc. IFC by-laws at Indiana uni versity motivate scholarship by virtue of a rule that any fraternity that ranks among the bottom five in scholarship three terms in a row goes on social pro until it pulls its grades up. Why wouldn’t this be a good thing on our cam pus? Even Hawk admits that you can’t justify fall term rushing in terms of welfare for the in dividual ru8hee. The administra tion does not fhvor fall term j-ushing in principle, but has gone along with it for these reasons: 1. Rushing all fall term is too expensive for fraternities in their present financially weak condi tion. 2. Winter term rush week de stroys the incentive for summer rushing. And summer rushing is responsible for persuading many students to come to the Univer sity instead of a competing in stitution. Until increased enrollment makes fraternities stronger, per haps rush week should be left where it is. In the meantime there are many completely posi tive projects upon which the fra ternities can concentrate. Hell Week ranks near the top of the list of things that give fraternities a bad name. In 1948 Indiana university gained na tional recognition for abolish ing Hell Week and institutng Help Week. But it is interesting to note that their IPC by-laws still allow for "informal initia tion’’ although it is limited to a Friday-through-Sunday weekend and restricted to the chapter house. In short this means: (1) In diana has Help Week and good public relations (2) On the sly they still have a short Hell Week known as informal Initia tion. Fraternities at Oregon (C ontiinu’d on paye seven) INTERPRETING THE NEWS Conservatives Set Own Time, Terms In Election Campaign By J. M. ROBERTS AP New* Analyst The British elections Thursday wound up a campaign which has been dull, with a Conservative victory generally expected from the start. The Conservatives exercised the majority prerogative of pick ing its own time for the vote. They chose a period of prosperity rather than gamble that pros perity would last until the nor mal time for an election, next year. They chose a period wfcen the Labor Party was going through a serious internal up heaval, due to the conflict l»e tueon the Attlee moderates ami the Bevantte left-wingers. They also chose a time when they could display regard for public confidence by seeking its approval of Anthony Eden's suc cession to Winston Churchill as prime minister. They gambled a year of their present term in office against a five-year extension. Important issues in the cam paign were few and not well de fined. Eden knocked the critical props from under the Laborites so far as international affairs were concerned when he obtain ed United States agreement to a top-level Big Four conference on European settlements. Many Laborites had depended upon criticism of the Anglo-Am erican atom-bomb program and th#* rearmament of Germany to appej.1 to the great mum „f p#*are sentiment In the country. But the majority of the party, for the aake of national security, went along with the Conserva tive* in Parliament for manufac ture of the atom bomb and rati fication of the Pari* accord*, foreclosing the matter* a* cam paign Issue*. Labor i* also handicapped by the fact that all the dir#* thing* they predicted in the 1951 elec tion*, if the Conservative* won, have not happened. The Conser vatives contended then they had no intention of turning the clock back on the welfare state, but that they would give It better management and not let it go overboard at the expense of the general economy. That, they said, would produce prosperity. Whether it waa produced or not, prosperity arrived. All this contributed to a feel ing during the campaign that the Conservatives would walk in. and detracted from public Interest. Britain, however, haa demon strated several time* since the war that she t* very closely di vided, politically. A* the cam paign came to its climax, there were sign* that the Conservatves were not quite so strong as they had thought. The party leaders were beginning to recall that, In 1951. they had gotten a Parlia mentary majority less than one fifth as large a* they had ex pected. Never Trust a Woman i must tfil a (onvinclnj; story—1 told him my father owns a big horse ranch/' of'-'eqonfwgi l<4 PICCOLO »vT.^°. KOn ?a,,y Emrrald •; >’"hli*h*<1 da>< a week 'luring the icM vear recert OrlZr, rT,!^''a‘ " T'T^ ’y S,,“>r"» l'»W ,h',AvSt ° w*hc r,,iv"«»y- fnoimd editorials arc written by the editor, initialed editorials hy -member* of The editorial hoard. JERRY HARREI.I., Editor I)6nNA RI^NBERG, Bu.ines.Mar^S Dirk LEWIS, SALLY KVAN. Associate Editors PAUL KEEFE, Managing Editor GORDON RICE, News Editor BILL MAIN WARING, Advertising Manager -- -T— -_______ NANCY SHAW, Office Manager ft—_JERRY CI.AUSSEN, CHI CK MITCUELMORE, CVSports Ed.t...i Httrrd1, PaUl k«rf*VDick *-ew'»> Gordon Rice, Ja7k.«